However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

Nature is the art of time.

A creative thought at first sight seems ridiculous and unimportant, an increase in those who cherish it reassures that hiding your creativity hides you for the rest of your life.

Know everything. Say nothing.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.

That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you...

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

As I sit here on a snowy morning watching the flakes gently fall outside my window, I look at the 300-year-old building across the street and the beautifully carved angels on its facade. There was...

Watch out, brother,’ his professor had told him more than once, ‘you have talent; it would be a sin to ruin it. But you’re impatient. Some one thing entices you, some one thing takes your...

The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed,...

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

Art is anything you can get away with.

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists...

Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any...

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

she had graduated from the Beaux Arts in Caen. She worked entirely on her body, she explained to me; I looked at her anxiously as she opened her portfolio. I was hoping she wasn’t going...

It’s like a work of art … the work doesn’t disappear when the author disappears,

great art can come from anywhere but not from anyone

The greatest artist does not have any conceptWhich a single piece of marble does not itself containWithin its excess, though onlyA hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

As a mother you have thoughts. You get interrupted. You forget.You are distracted. Your thoughts and ideas become fragmented,diluted, or simply evaporate. You must have faith that you willagain have a thought. Creativity is the...

There are no mistakes in Zentangle, so there is no need for an eraser. If you do not like the look of a stroke you have made, it then becomes only an opportunity to create...

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one’s own.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the...

The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.

In many times, after creating a piece of work I want to stand up and applaud.

Andrei, did you like the opera?””Not particularly.””Andrei, do you see what you’re missing?””I don’t think I do, Kira. It’s all rather silly. And useless.””Can’t you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?””No....

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their...

It’s up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don’t even want to use language you and I know or can...

Art is my second world, second soul and second language.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

The Larsta believed that life was about seeking the divine, he read. They taught that art draws us closer to understanding divinity. Since not all men can spend their time in art, it is to...

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be...

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood....

Viața nu e suport pentru artă. Invers stau lucrurile.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

Art isn’t only a painting; it’s anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.